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CIGAR VENDING MAGHINE.

No. 520,243. Patented May 22, 1894.

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A. H. RANDALL, Jr. CIGAR VENDING MAGHINE.

No. 520,243. Patented May 22, 1894.

UNETED STATES" PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED HAROLD RANDALL, JR, OF PHILADELFHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ClGAR-VEN DING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,243, dated May 22,1894.

7 Application filed August 11, 1893.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED HAROLD RAN DALL, Jr., a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented anImproved Cigar-Vending Machine, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists of improvements in that class of machines known ascoin operated vending machines and is intended to be used as a means forselling or vending cigars from the original package; it further consistsof a receptacle or box for the cigars and means whereby they arewithdrawn from the machine one at a time by mechanism adapted to be setin motion after the insertion of a coin.

My invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1, is a perspective view of the'machine, with the frontand one of the sides detached, and a part ofthe structure broken awayinorder to more clearly show the inte rior mechanism. Fig. 2, is asectional view on the line 33, Fig. 3. Fig. 3, is afront elevation ofthe machine. Figs. and 5,are enlarged views of parts of the mechanism,and Fig. 6, is a diagram view of the belt. I

In the selling of cigars it is required that they be sold from theoriginal package only, or in other words from the box in which they werepacked,and in order to do this with my improved machine, I haveconstructed a cigar box having compartments, each of said compartmentscontaining a cigar, the cigars be ing sold or vended in the mannerhereinafter set forth.

In Fig. 1, A is the cigar box having the compartments a for thereception of the cigars a. Secured to the inner surface of the front andback of the machine are angle pieces a which serve as supports for saidcigar box.

The mechanism for vending the cigars is constructed as foll0ws:B B arebearing bars which extend across the front and rear of the machine nearthe base and mounted in these bars are the rollers B B containing thebelt 13 The roller B is a spring roller similar to a spring shade rollerand the roller B is a detent roller having mechanism which limits themovement of the belt, this belt having a series of perforations 1) shownclearly in the diagram Fig. 6, as well as in Fig. 1, the per- Serial No.482,940. (No model.)

forations being sufficiently large to allow the free passage of a cigarfrom the box to the delivery tray. The perforations are arranged atintervals across the belt as shown in Fig. 6, so that the cigars will bedischarged in rotation one at a time, the first row being dischargedfirst and after the last cigar has been discharged from this row thefirst cigar from the second row is discharged and so on until the entirebox is emptied.

On the end of the roll B is a toothed disk B which engages with notchedwheels I) mounted on the shaft F, which is suitably connected to thecoin operated mechanism so that when the coin is dropped into the coinchute C and the crank D turns, the roller B is released and is moved thedistance between the teeth on the disk B by the spring in the roll Bthrough the medium of the belt B this movement transfers the perforatedportion b of the belt under a compartmentin the cigar box allowing acigar to drop therethrough onto the tray 12 where it may be removed bythe person operating the machine.

0 is the coin chute extending along one side and down the back of themachine to apoint near the bottom of the casing as clearly shown inFigs. 2 and-3. A curved path 0 is cut in the chute to let the arms 0'secured to the shaft 0 pass into the chute and push the coin that hasbeen placed therein. This shaft 0 is mounted in the bearing bars B B andis geared to a shaft 01 at the front of the machine which is providedwith a suit-able handle D. On the shaft 0 is a ratchet wheel g withwhich engages a pawl g, this pawl preventing the shaft from being turnedin the reverse direction so that a coin cannot possibly'be removed fromthe machine after once having passed the curved path 0. The chute is cutaway at 0 directly opposite the shaft 0 and in this cut away portion isa roller 6' which extends into the chute a sufficientdistance to preventthe passage of a coin. This roller is mounted on an arm 6 of the rockshaft E having its bearings in the frame of the machine, and on theopposite end of this shaft is an arm 6 connected with a slide E by a rod6 so that when the coin is forced through the chute by one of the arms0' the roller 6' is moved out of the path of the coin and consequentlythis motion is transmitted to the vertical slide E as shown clearly inFigs. 1 and 4. On this slide is a pawl e which engages with the ratchetwheel f on a detent shaft Fso that on the movement of the roller e bythe coin the shaft will be moved a certaln distance, a spring pawlfpreventing the shaft from moving in the opposite direction.

On the shaft F are two notched Wheels 5' h the notches of one wheelbeing placed in line with the projections of the other and acting as anescapement movement for the roll B, the teeth of said roll being held bythese notched disks and when the shaft F is turned by the coin it allowsthe roll to move one tooth, feeding the belt the proper distance.

Mounted under the vertical slide E is a spring e which returns the slideand the several arms to their normal position so that a coin inserted inpassing through the chute will be detained by the roller e.

The operation of the mechanism is as follows: A coin of a denominationto be specitied as the price of a cigar, which in this instance 1s anickel five cent piece, is dropped into the chute and slides along anddown the same to a point 0 where it comes in contact with the roller 6.When the coin reaches this point the handle should be turned one fullrevolution, turning the shaft 0 a quarter turn and one of the arms 0will force the coin past the roller 6' giving a rocking motion to theshaft E and forcing the vertical slide E down, its pawl engaging withthe ratchet of the shaft F, consequently turning the shaft and allowingthe escapement disk I) and the roller 13 to turn the proper distance andas the opposite roller is a spring roller, it will draw the belt fromone compartment a in the cigar box to another compartment and allow acigar to pass through the perforation and escape into the tray 5 to beremoved by the purchaser. Then the cigars of one row have been removed,a second perforation comes in line with the second row of cigars andthis row will be removed one at a time and the operation carried onuntil the cigars contained in the box are exhausted.

In order to support the cigars and the belt, I preferably mount underthe belt a wire frame It, as it will be remembered that the bottom ofthe box is removed when the same is inserted in the machine.

It will be understood that the arrangement of the belts may be modified,and that the belt may be moved forward by the direct connection of acrank, and that a spring may be mounted on the roller from which thebelt is unwound so as to give a tension to the belt; but I prefer to usethe belt construction as shown and described.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, in a cigar vending machine,of the coin chute having a curved path cut in the lower end of the same,a cut out portion in said chute opposite said path, a lever projectingwithin the cut out portion, a detent mechanism operated solely by themovements of said lever, a series of arms adapted to move on said pathand force the coins forward against said lever, with mechanism formoving said arms, substantially as described.

2. The combination, in a cigar vending machine, of the coin chute havinga curved path in the lower end of the same, said coin chute I A havingalso a cut-outportion opposite said up path, a rock shaft, a lever onthe end of said rock shaft, a roller carried thereby and pr! jectinginto the cut out portion of the coin chute, detent mechanism controlledsolely by; the movements of the lever and rock shaft, and a series ofarms moving in said curved path to force the coins through the chuteagainst the roller, thereby forcing said roller out of the way andoperating the detentmechanism, substantially as and for the purposesdescribed.

3. The combination in a cigar vending machine, ot' the coin chute,bearing bars extending across the lower part of the machine, a rockshaft supported in said bearing bars, a 0 1 lever on one end of saidrock shaft connected to a sliding belt, a detent shaft secured inbearings on the bottom of the machine, a ratchet wheel mounted on thesame, with which said sliding bolt engages, and a pawl to prevent backmovement of the ratchet wheel, substantially as described.

4. The combination in a cigar vending machine, of the belt, rollers onwhich said belt is wound, a detent shaft at the bottom of the machine,notched wheels mounted thereon, one of said rollers being provided witha toothed disk with which the notched wheels alternately engage, andmechanism for moving said notched wheels whereby the rolls can be moveda certain distance, substantially described.

5. The combination in a cigar vending mchine, of the belt, rollers onwhich said belt is wound, one of said rollers being provided with aspring, and the other roller having a toothed disk, a detent shaft, aratchet wheel and a pair of notched wheels on said shaft,a slide, a pawlthereon adapted to engage with said ratchet wheel, and mechanism foroperating the slide, substantially as described.

6. The combination in a cigar vending machine, of the coin chute havingacut out portion at its base, a rock shaft, bearings there for, leverssecured to the ends of said rock shaft one lever extending into the 'cutout portion of the chute, a slide connected to the other lever, a detentshaft, a ratchet wheel mounted on said detentshaft, a pawl on the slideengaging with the ratchet wheel, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED HAROLD RANDALL, JR.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. BARR, JOSEPH H. KLEIN.

